However, these donors would collect interest on their investment if the garden city generated profits through rents or, as Fishman calls the process, "philanthropic land speculation". in 1899 to create the garden city of Letchworth. He founded the Garden City Association (later known as the Town and Country Planning Association or TCPA), which created First Garden City, Ltd. He decided to get funding from "gentlemen of responsible position and undoubted probity and honour".
To build a garden city, Howard needed money to buy land.
Howard's garden city concept combined the town and country in order to provide the working class an alternative to working on farms or in "crowded, unhealthy cities". He quotes a number of respected thinkers and their disdain of cities. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. This success provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform sold enough copies to result in a second edition, Garden Cities of To-morrow. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as satellites of a central city of 58,000 people, linked by road and rail. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another would be developed nearby. His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 9,000 acres (3,600 ha), planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre. Inspired by the utopian novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, and Henry George's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published the book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow).
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